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…people… in their final days regretted that they lived a life other people expected of them and not the life they truly wanted to live. – Bronnie Ware

Spending time with your children is good for them, and it is good for you. It is time that you will never regret spending.

Parent blaming is a popular and convenient form of self-justification because it allows people to live less uncomfortably with their regrets and imperfections.

Without self-justification, we might be left standing emotionally naked, unprotected, in a pool of regrets and losses.

…maturity depends on the adult’s capacity to confront lost goals, or lost possible selves, and acknowledge regrets and sorrows over roads not taken or dreams unfulfilled.

There are things worse than dying. Living with what we had to do to keep living, for one. Regretting that lost opportunity to have been a hero.

You have agency. You have strength. You make them regret ever tangling with you.

Don’t engage when you are upset. We regret the things we say in anger, and while bridges take months or years to build, they can be burned in an instant.

You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.

Intense regret is what you experience when you can most easily imagine yourself doing something other than what you did.